Fall 2026: 3 sections.
All of them are open.
The oldest of these readings was 2 hours ago.
Grades
No grade history for this course: the data runs Fall 2021 to Fall 2025.
Sections for Fall 2026 are below.
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linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.
The chain dibs can see is 1 course long before ENGCOMP 495S. dibs has read a class page for every course in it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department
lets you take together.
From the registrar's catalog
Seminar, 90 minutes. Requisite: course 495A or 495C. Recommended for all teaching assistants teaching English as a second language, English composition, and Writing II courses during summer. Focus determined on individual basis according to class appointed and may include oral skills pedagogy, composition pedagogy, course design, assessment of student performance, and specialized problems that may occur in intensive summer language and/or composition courses. Supervision during appointment and mentor meetings and reflection on teaching experience following summer appointment. S/U grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 3 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
Class: Instructor Consent
Registrar's Restrictions cell.
Oldest reading: 30 hours ago.
Sem 1Sem 2Sem 3English Composition 495A (min S), prerequisite or English Composition 495C (min S), prerequisite
Registrar's Requisites.
Oldest reading: 30 hours ago.
Sem 1Sem 2Sem 3ENGLISH COMPOSITION POLICY FOR ATTENDANCE AND LATE ENROLLMENT (ALL CLASSES): The department will cancel your enrollment in any English Composition class if you do not attend at least one of the first two class meetings. For English Composition 3 and all subsequent courses, students must satisfy the University of California Entry-Level Writing requirement before enrolling. For detailed information about the Entry-Level Writing requirement, see the UCLA General Catalog or https://www.wp.ucla.edu/undergraduate/undergraduate-writing-requirements/freshman/ . The Fall Quarter Informed Placement Process (IPP) will be given at a time and location to be determined. For more information, see https://www.wp.ucla.edu/placement/ipp/ .
Registrar's Class notes.
Oldest reading: 30 hours ago.
Sem 1Sem 2Sem 3
Your saved details do not meet a listed restriction for Sem 1. Check the restriction before enrolling.
5 seats left.3 of 8 enrolledlow risk
A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.
needs consent: Instructor Consent: restrictions read 30 hours ago
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5 seats left.3 of 8 enrolledlow risk
A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.
needs consent: Instructor Consent: restrictions read 30 hours ago
Your saved details do not meet a listed restriction for Sem 3. Check the restriction before enrolling.
4 seats left.4 of 8 enrolledlow risk
A guess about whether this will still be here at your enrollment pass, from how full it is now and how fast classes like it have filled before. Seat risk is a prediction and seat status is what the registrar said: they are two things, and this page keeps them apart.
needs consent: Instructor Consent: restrictions read 30 hours ago
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
This course runs 3 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
›iWhat a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when
dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that
has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three
readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, filled by 1.
enrolled
3 of 8 · 5 left
readings only
731
hours read
18 Aug 21:409 Sep 23:322 Oct 01:24 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 565 hours its hourly record covers, 30%, and did not look in 397. dibs had no hourly record before 8 Sep, which is the other 496 of 1061 plotted.3 of 8 enrolled at the newest reading, 2 hours ago, with 5 left. Seats from 18 Aug 21:40 to 2 Oct 01:24, 2 to 3. dibs read 168 of the 565 hours its hourly record here covers, 30%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 397 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 8 September at 13:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 496 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, unchanged.
enrolled
3 of 8 · 5 left
Both readings say 3 of 8.
readings only
cap 832
hours read
18 Aug 21:409 Sep 23:322 Oct 01:24 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 565 hours its hourly record covers, 30%, and did not look in 397. dibs had no hourly record before 8 Sep, which is the other 496 of 1061 plotted.3 of 8 enrolled at the newest reading, 2 hours ago, with 5 left. Seats from 18 Aug 21:40 to 2 Oct 01:24, 3 to 3. The line is flat across the whole window: recorded enrollment counts match. Changes between reads may be missed. dibs read 168 of the 565 hours its hourly record here covers, 30%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 397 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 8 September at 13:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 496 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
Nothing read since 2 Oct, 2 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, unchanged.
enrolled
4 of 8 · 4 left
Both readings say 4 of 8.
readings only
10cap 842
hours read
18 Aug 21:409 Sep 23:322 Oct 01:24 · 2 hours ago
dibs read 168 of the 565 hours its hourly record covers, 30%, and did not look in 397. dibs had no hourly record before 8 Sep, which is the other 496 of 1061 plotted.4 of 8 enrolled at the newest reading, 2 hours ago, with 4 left. Seats from 18 Aug 21:40 to 2 Oct 01:24, 4 to 4. The line is flat across the whole window: recorded enrollment counts match. Changes between reads may be missed. dibs read 168 of the 565 hours its hourly record here covers, 30%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 397 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 8 September at 13:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 496 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
›iHow readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.